SMRTR ProgrammingAug 9, 2026GitConnected

CSS before Flexbox was a survival horror game

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Centering elements in CSS once required hacky workarounds like floats, spacer GIFs, and IE-specific stylesheets. Today, Flexbox and Grid solve it in two lines.

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